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“Good Boys, Bad Hombres: The Racial Politics of Mentoring Latino Boys in Schools”
Michael V Singh Assistant Professor, Department of Chicana/o/x Studies, UC Davis
Good Boys, Bad Hombres examines the politics of empowerment and inclusion as aspects of youth control in schools. Based on two years of ethnographic research in an urban school district in California, the book tells the story of Latino Male Success, a school-based mentorship program for Latino boys. Instead of attempting to shape these boys’ lives through the threat of punishment, the program aims to provide an “invitation to a respectable and productive masculinity” framed as being rooted in traditional Latinx signifiers of manhood. Singh argues, however, that the promotion of this aspirational form of Latino masculinity is rooted in neoliberal multiculturalism, heteropatriarchy, and anti-Blackness. Good Boys, Bad Hombres sheds light on how deficit-based youth programming is a reaction to the alleged crisis of Latino boys and is governed by the perceived remedies of the neoliberal state. Documenting the ways Latino men and boys resist the politics of neoliberal empowerment for new visions of justice, Singh works to deconstruct male empowerment, arguing that new narratives and practices—beyond patriarchal redemption—are necessary for a reimagining of Latino manhood in schools and beyond.
Sponsored by: Center for Research on Social Change, UC Berkeley
Co-sponsored by: Center for Race and Gender, Latinx Research Center, Center for Ethnographic Research, Berkeley School of Education
Daniel Dohan, Professor, Institute for Health Policy Studies, UC San Francisco
Neil Gong, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC San Diego
Jovan Scott Lewis, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley
Panel 1: Welcome: Martín Sánchez-Jankowski
Introductory comments: Corey Abramson and Neil Gong
Presentations: - Martín Sánchez-Jankowski - Stefan Timmermans and Iddo Tavory - Annette Lareau - Thomas DeGloma and Max Papadantonakis - Claire Decoteau
Panel 2: Introduction: Neil Gong and Corey Abramson
Presentations: - Diane Vaughan - Al Young - Lynn Chancer - Dan Dohan
Q&A - Elyse Minchen
For speaker bios and more information, visit the event webpage: https://issi.berkeley.edu/cer/beyond-the-case
Sponsored by Center for Ethnographic Research Co-sponsored by Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley; School of Sociology, University of Arizona
Emine Fidan Elcioglu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto
Tania Murray Li, Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Martina Avanza, Senior Lecturer, Political Sociology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
04/11/2019
Alvaro Jarrín, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross
Juan De Lara, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
04/19/2018
Ellen Moore, Visiting Scholar, ISSI
Sharika Thiranagama, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
Jennifer Randles, Assistant Professor, Sociology, CSU Fresno
with Jill Duerr Berrick, Zellerbach Family Foundation Professor, School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley as respondent
Juan Herrera, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies, School of Language, Culture, and Society, Oregon State University
Chris Zepeda-Millán, Assistant Professor and Chair, Center for Research on Social Change, UC Berkeley as a respondent
Part of the ISSI Graduate Fellows Seminar series.
Co-sponsored by Center for Ethnographic Research, Department of Ethnic Studies, Institute of Urban and Regional Development and Center for Latino Research Policy, UC Berkeley
03/15/2017
Cid Martinez, Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of San Diego
Steve Viscelli, Ph.D., Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Ann Swidler, Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley
Jacqueline Adams, Senior Researcher, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues
